Aroga flavicomella

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Aroga flavicomella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Aroga
Species:
A. flavicomella
Binomial name
Aroga flavicomella
(Zeller, 1839)
Synonyms
  • Gelechia flavicomellaZeller, 1839
  • Anacampsis flavicomella var. aureodorsellaBruand, 1859

Aroga flavicomella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in most of Europe, except Ireland, Great Britain, the Benelux, Denmark, Fennoscandia, the Baltic region, Portugal and the western and southern part of the Balkan Peninsula. [1] It has also been recorded from Turkey, the Middle East, Mongolia, Korea and Central Asia, [2] including Kyrgyzstan. [3]

Leaves of sloe fastened together and eaten by larva Aroga flavicomella leaves of sloe fastened together and eaten by larva.JPG
Leaves of sloe fastened together and eaten by larva
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Larva

The wingspan is 15–17 mm. [4] Adults are on wing from May to June.

The larvae feed on Prunus spinosa , [5] Prunus domestica and Prunus cerasus . [6] They feed from within tied together leaves. Larvae can be found from fall to April.

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References

  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. Junnilainen, J.et al. 2010: The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Zootaxa, 2367: 1–68. Preview
  3. Aroga flavicomella - BOLD Systems - Taxonomy Browser
  4. Aroga flavicomella - Ochrana přírody a krajiny v Hlavním městě Praze
  5. HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
  6. Aroga at funet